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Find out about being 'active', trading and non-trading, and being dormant if you’re a new or existing company or organisation.
What you need to do or know if your company is sold, stops trading or is being wound up for Corporation Tax purposes.
How to register an overseas entity and its beneficial owners or managing officers, so it can buy, sell or transfer property or land in the UK.
Check if your company can pay a reduced rate of 10% Corporate Tax if it exploits patented inventions and innovations.
Your responsibilities as a company director after your company has been liquidated - helping the official receiver, settling debts, what you can and cannot do.
Information to help you identify if your organisation needs to publish a modern slavery statement.
What it means to be dormant for Corporation Tax or Companies House - trading and non-trading, annual accounts, Company Tax Returns and telling HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
Paying Corporation Tax when your limited company sells an asset for more than it paid - includes chargeable gains, intangible assets, working out inflation
Object to a company's application to be removed from the companies register - how to find out if a company's applied for insolvency, who can object, how to object, what happens next.
Find out if your business needs to publish a tax strategy, what it should include and when to publish it.
File changes to your company information including directors, shareholders and registered office address, and where your company records are kept
How to identify and record the people who own or control your company.
How to put your limited company or limited liability partnership into administration - what administration is, appointing an administrator, when administration ends
How to buy or acquire the assets of a dissolved company - how and when you can claim money or property, who to contact and the forms you need
Find out about the type of losses your company can offset against profits in future accounting periods.
When your company or organisation pays Corporation Tax - paying, reporting and dormant companies
How to work out payments and when you should make them if your company’s annual taxable profits are between £1.5 million and £20 million.
How to close down your limited company by getting it struck off the Companies Register
How to manage your annual accounts, Company Tax Returns and Corporation Tax if your non-trading or dormant limited company starts trading again.
Check if your company’s or group’s interest deductions for Corporation Tax will be restricted, and if you need to send a Corporate Interest Restriction return.
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